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Had to be a pipe, he thought, stepping back as a drop of water fell past him and hit the already saturated hall carpet with a fat plop, then looking up to see the dark, continent-shaped water stain spreading across the underside of the ceiling, a nipple-shaped drop gathering at its center.
Fear Itself Jonathan Nasaw 2003
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"Mavis," he had said bitterly, "a song thrush, how inaptly named - a corn-crake of a woman - a mastodon of a female - an extinct mammalian creature with nipple-shaped prominences on her molar teeth."
The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991
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A nipple-shaped process, a, is seen to be attached by a pedicle to the back of the upper part, b, of the prostate, and to act like a stopper to the neck of the bladder.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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-- The prostate, d, is considerably enlarged, and the vesical orifice is girt by a prominent ring, b b, from the right border of which the nipple-shaped body, a, projects and occupies the outlet.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Small, nipple-shaped prominences found on the tongue, the skin, etc. PARAPLEGIA.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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-- Caps may be carried very conveniently by means of a ring, with two dozen nipple-shaped beads, made of some metal, strung upon it; each bead being intended to be covered by a percussion-cap.
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866
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The yellow-flowering gourd, called _penca_, has two kinds or varieties, the common and mamillary, owing to the fruit of the latter having a large nipple-shaped process at the end.
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Were Mr Cunningham not so obviously a raging heterosexual, one may suppose his views were a prelude to his computer being seized and CCTV footage coming to light of a crowd of naked and proud men dancing around a nipple-shaped hat and placing clip the tie on the donkey.
British Blogs 2008
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a nipple-shaped excrescence at the vesical orifice.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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